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10 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A). 

11 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). 12 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

FINRA believes will provide greater 

clarity to FINRA rules. 

B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Burden on Competition 

FINRA does not believe that the 

proposed rule change will result in any 

burden on competition that is not 

necessary or appropriate in furtherance 

of the purposes of the Act. The 

proposed rule change brings clarity and 

consistency to FINRA rules without 

adding any burden on firms. 

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Comments on the 

Proposed Rule Change Received From 

Members, Participants, or Others 

Written comments were neither 

solicited nor received. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

Because the foregoing proposed rule 

change does not: (i) Significantly affect 

the protection of investors or the public 

interest; (ii) impose any significant 

burden on competition; and (iii) become 

operative for 30 days from the date on 

which it was filed, or such shorter time 

as the Commission may designate, it has 

become effective pursuant to Section 

19(b)(3)(A) of the Act 10 and Rule 19b– 

4(f)(6) thereunder.11

At any time within 60 days of the 

filing of the proposed rule change, the 

Commission summarily may 

temporarily suspend such rule change if 

it appears to the Commission that such 

action is necessary or appropriate in the 

public interest, for the protection of 

investors, or otherwise in furtherance of 

the purposes of the Act. If the 

Commission takes such action, the 

Commission shall institute proceedings 

to determine whether the proposed rule 

should be approved or disapproved. 

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change is consistent with the Act. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– 

FINRA–2021–018 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–FINRA–2021–018. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if email is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

internet website (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for website viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 

10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such 

filing also will be available for 

inspection and copying at the principal 

office of FINRA. All comments received 

will be posted without change. Persons 

submitting comments are cautioned that 

we do not redact or edit personal 

identifying information from comment 

submissions. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. All submissions 

should refer to File Number SR–FINRA– 

2021–018 and should be submitted on 

or before August 10, 2021. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.12

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–92407; File No. SR– 

CboeBYX–2021–016] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe 

BYX Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing 

and Immediate Effectiveness of a 

Proposed Rule Change To Amend Its 

Fee Schedule 

July 14, 2021. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2

notice is hereby given that on July 1, 

2021, Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc. 

(‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘BYX’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule 

change as described in Items I, II, and 

III below, which Items have been 

prepared by the Exchange. The 

Commission is publishing this notice to 

solicit comments on the proposed rule 

change from interested persons. 

I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Terms of Substance of 

the Proposed Rule Change 

Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc. (the 

‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘BYX’’) proposes to 

amend its Fee Schedule. The text of the 

proposed rule change is provided in 

Exhibit 5. 

The text of the proposed rule change 

is also available on the Exchange’s 

website (http://markets.cboe.com/us/ 

equities/regulation/rule_filings/byx/), at 

the Exchange’s Office of the Secretary, 

and at the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room. 

II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, the 

Exchange included statements 

concerning the purpose of and basis for 

the proposed rule change and discussed 

any comments it received on the 

proposed rule change. The text of these 

statements may be examined at the 

places specified in Item IV below. The 

Exchange has prepared summaries, set 

forth in sections A, B, and C below, of 

the most significant aspects of such 

statements. 


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3See Cboe Global Markets, U.S. Equities Market 

Volume Summary, Month-to-Date (June 29, 2021), 

available at https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/ 

market_statistics/. 

4Orders yielding Fee Code B are displayed orders 

that add liquidity to BYX (Tape B), Orders yielding 

Fee Code V are displayed orders that add liquidity 

to BYX (Tape A), and orders yielding Fee Code Y 

are displayed orders that add liquidity to BYX 

(Tape C). Each is assessed a standard fee of 

$0.00200. 

5 ‘‘ADAV’’ means average daily volume calculated 

as the number of shares added per day and is 

calculated on a monthly basis. ‘‘Step-Up ADAV’’ 

means ADAV in the relevant baseline month 

subtracted from current ADAV. 

6 ‘‘TCV’’ means total consolidated volume 

calculated as the volume reported by all exchanges 

and trade reporting facilities to a consolidated 

transaction reporting plan for the month for which 

the fees apply. 

7 15 U.S.C. 78f. 

8 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4). 

9 15 U.S.C. 78f.(b)(5). 

10See generally NYSE Price List, Transaction 

Fees; Nasdaq Equity 7, Section 118(a)(1), Fees for 

Execution and Routing of Orders in Nasdaq-Listed 

Securities; and BZX Equities Fee Schedule, 

Footnote 2, Step-Up Tiers. 

11See BYX Equities Fee Schedule, Footnote 1, 

Add/Remove Volume Tiers. 

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

1. Purpose 

The Exchange proposes to amend its 

Fee Schedule to adopt a new Step-Up 

Tier under footnote 2 of the Fee 

Schedule, effective July 1, 2021. 

The Exchange first notes that it 

operates in a highly competitive market 

in which market participants can 

readily direct order flow to competing 

venues if they deem fee levels at a 

particular venue to be excessive or 

incentives to be insufficient. More 

specifically, the Exchange is only one of 

16 registered equities exchanges, as well 

as a number of alternative trading 

systems and other off-exchange venues 

that do not have similar self-regulatory 

responsibilities under the Exchange Act, 

to which market participants may direct 

their order flow. Based on publicly 

available information, no single 

registered equities exchange has more 

than 16% of the market share.3 Thus, in 

such a low-concentrated and highly 

competitive market, no single equities 

exchange possesses significant pricing 

power in the execution of order flow. 

The Exchange in particular operates a 

‘‘Taker-Maker’’ model whereby it pays 

credits to members that remove 

liquidity and assesses fees to those that 

add liquidity. The Exchange’s Fee 

Schedule sets forth the standard rebates 

and rates applied per share for orders 

that remove and provide liquidity, 

respectively. Particularly, for securities 

at or above $1.00, the Exchange 

provides a standard rebate of $0.00020 

per share for orders that remove 

liquidity and assesses a fee of $0.00200 

per share for orders that add liquidity. 

For orders priced below $1.00, the 

Exchange does not assess a fee or 

provide a rebate for orders that add 

liquidity and assesses a fee of 0.10% of 

total dollar value for orders that remove 

liquidity. The Exchange believes that 

the ever-shifting market share among 

the exchanges from month to month 

demonstrates that market participants 

can shift order flow or discontinue to 

reduce use of certain categories of 

products, in response to fee changes. 

Accordingly, competitive forces 

constrain the Exchange’s transaction 

fees, and market participants can readily 

trade on competing venues if they deem 

pricing levels at those other venues to 

be more favorable. 

Additionally, in response to the 

competitive environment, the Exchange 

also offers tiered pricing which provides 

Members opportunities to qualify for 

higher rebates or reduced fees where 

certain volume criteria and thresholds 

are met. Tiered pricing provides an 

incremental incentive for Members to 

strive for higher tier levels, which 

provides increasingly higher benefits or 

discounts for satisfying increasingly 

more stringent criteria. For example, the 

Exchange currently offers various Add/ 

Remove Volume Tiers under footnote 1 

of the Fee Schedule, which offer various 

enhanced rebates and reduced fees for 

reaching certain, incrementally more 

challenging volume-based thresholds. 

The Exchange now proposes to adopt 

a new Step-Up Tier under footnote 2 of 

the Fee Schedule, which offers a 

reduced fee to Members that increase 

their relative add volume order flow 

each month over a predetermined 

baseline as well as add liquidity over an 

established threshold. Specifically, the 

new Step-Up Tier provides Members an 

opportunity to qualify for a reduced fee 

of $0.0014 on their qualifying orders 

that yield B, V, and Y,4 where a Member 

1) adds a Step-Up ADAV 5 from June 

2021 greater than or equal to 0.05% of 

TCV 6 or adds a Step-Up ADAV from 

June 2021 greater than or equal to 

2,000,000, and 2) has a total add ADAV 

greater than or equal to 0.25% of TCV. 

The proposed Step-Up Tier is designed 

to encourage Members that provide 

displayed liquidity on the Exchange to 

increase their overall add volume order 

flow, which would benefit all Members 

by providing greater execution 

opportunities on the Exchange and to 

contribute to a deeper, more liquid 

market, to the benefit of all investors. 

2. Statutory Basis 

The Exchange believes that the 

proposed rule change is consistent with 

the objectives of Section 6 of the Act,7

in general, and furthers the objectives of 

Section 6(b)(4),8 in particular, as it is 

designed to provide for the equitable 

allocation of reasonable dues, fees and 

other charges among its Members and 

issuers and other persons using its 

facilities. The Exchange also believes 

that the proposed rule change is 

consistent with the objectives of Section 

6(b)(5) 9 requirements that the rules of 

an exchange be designed to prevent 

fraudulent and manipulative acts and 

practices, to promote just and equitable 

principles of trade, to foster cooperation 

and coordination with persons engaged 

in regulating, clearing, settling, 

processing information with respect to, 

and facilitating transactions in 

securities, to remove impediments to 

and perfect the mechanism of a free and 

open market and a national market 

system, and, in general, to protect 

investors and the public interest, and, 

particularly, is not designed to permit 

unfair discrimination between 

customers, issuers, brokers, or dealers. 

As described above, the Exchange 

operates in a highly competitive market 

in which market participants can 

readily direct order flow to competing 

venues if they deem fee levels at a 

particular venue to be excessive or 

incentives to be insufficient. The 

proposed rule changes reflect a 

competitive pricing structure designed 

to incentivize market participants to 

direct their order flow to the Exchange, 

which the Exchange believes would 

enhance market quality to the benefit of 

all Members. Also, as described above, 

the Exchange notes that relative volumebased incentives and discounts have 

been widely adopted by exchanges,10

including the Exchange,11 and are 

reasonable, equitable and nondiscriminatory because they are open to 

all members on an equal basis and 

provide additional benefits or discounts 

that are reasonably related to (i) the 

value to an exchange’s market quality 

and (ii) associated higher levels of 

market activity, such as higher levels of 

liquidity provision and/or growth 

patterns. Competing equity exchanges 

offer similar tiered pricing structures, 

including schedules of rebates and fees 

that apply based upon members 

achieving certain volume and/or growth 

thresholds, as well as assess similar fees 

or rebates for similar types of orders, to 

that of the Exchange. 

In particular, the Exchange believes 

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12See supra note 3. 

13See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 

(June 9, 2005), 70 FR 37496, 37499 (June 29, 2005). 

14NetCoalition v. SEC, 615 F.3d 525, 539 (D.C. 

Cir. 2010) (quoting Securities Exchange Act Release 

No. 59039 (December 2, 2008), 73 FR 74770, 74782– 

83 (December 9, 2008) (SR–NYSEArca–2006–21)). 

reasonable means to encourage 

Members to increase their relative add 

liquidity on the Exchange each month 

over a predetermined baseline as well as 

over a set threshold by offering 

Members an additional opportunity to 

meet criteria to receive a reduced fee. 

More specifically, the Exchange notes 

that greater add volume order flow may 

provide for deeper, more liquid markets 

and execution opportunities at 

improved prices, which the Exchange 

believes signals an increase in activity 

from other market participants. This 

overall increase in activity deepens the 

Exchange’s liquidity pool, offers 

additional cost savings, supports the 

quality of price discovery, promotes 

market transparency and improves 

market quality, for all investors. 

Further, the Exchange believes that 

the proposed Step-Up Tier is reasonable 

as it does not represent a significant 

departure from the criteria or 

corresponding rates currently offered 

under in the Fee Schedule, and that the 

proposed reduced fee is commensurate 

with the new criteria. For example, 

Remove Volume Tier 7 under footnote 

1 of the Fee Schedule provides an 

enhanced rebate of $0.0016 per share for 

qualifying orders, where a Member 

increases certain order flow on the 

Exchange each month over a 

predetermined baseline as well as over 

a set threshold. The Exchange notes that 

this enhanced rebate ($0.0016) over the 

standard rebate ($0.00020) is essentially 

equivalent to the proposed $0.0014 

reduced fee offer in the new Step-Up 

Tier. 

The Exchange also believes that the 

proposed rule change represents an 

equitable allocation of fees and rebates 

and is not unfairly discriminatory 

because all Members are eligible for the 

new Step-Up Tier and have the 

opportunity to meet the tier’s criteria 

and receive the proposed reduced fee if 

such criteria is met. Without having a 

view of activity on other markets and 

off-exchange venues, the Exchange has 

no way of knowing whether this 

proposed rule change would definitely 

result in any Members qualifying for the 

proposed tier. While the Exchange has 

no way of predicting with certainty how 

the proposed tier will impact Member 

activity, the Exchange anticipates that at 

least three Members will be able to 

satisfy the criteria proposed under the 

new tier. The Exchange also notes that 

the proposed tier will not adversely 

impact any Member’s ability to qualify 

for reduced fees or enhanced rebate 

offered under other tiers. Should a 

Member not meet the proposed new 

criteria, the Member will merely not 

receive the corresponding proposed 

reduced fee. 

B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Burden on Competition 

The Exchange does not believe that 

the proposed rule changes will impose 

any burden on competition not 

necessary or appropriate in furtherance 

of the purposes of the Act. Rather, as 

discussed above, the Exchange believes 

that the proposed change would 

encourage the submission of additional 

order flow to a public exchange, thereby 

promoting market depth, execution 

incentives and enhanced execution 

opportunities, as well as price discovery 

and transparency for all Members. As a 

result, the Exchange believes that the 

proposed change furthers the 

Commission’s goal in adopting 

Regulation NMS of fostering 

competition among orders, which 

promotes ‘‘more efficient pricing of 

individual stocks for all types of orders, 

large and small.’’ 

The Exchange believes the proposed 

rule change does not impose any burden 

on intramarket competition that is not 

necessary or appropriate in furtherance 

of the purposes of the Act. Particularly, 

the proposed new Step-Up Tier applies 

to all Members equally in that all 

Members are eligible for these tiers, 

have a reasonable opportunity to meet 

the tiers’ criteria and will receive the 

reduced fee on their qualifying orders if 

such criteria is met. The Exchange does 

not believe the proposed change to 

adopt a new Step-Up Tier burdens 

competition, but rather, enhances 

competition as it is intended to increase 

the competitiveness of BYX by adopting 

an additional pricing incentive in order 

to attract order flow and incentivize 

participants to increase their 

participation on the Exchange, 

providing for additional execution 

opportunities for market participants 

and improved price transparency. 

Greater overall order flow, trading 

opportunities, and pricing transparency 

benefits all market participants on the 

Exchange by enhancing market quality 

and continuing to encourage Members 

to send orders, thereby contributing 

towards a robust and well-balanced 

market ecosystem. 

Next, the Exchange believes the 

proposed rule change does not impose 

any burden on intermarket competition 

that is not necessary or appropriate in 

furtherance of the purposes of the Act. 

As previously discussed, the Exchange 

operates in a highly competitive market. 

In such an environment, the Exchange 

must continually review, and consider 

adjusting, its fees and rebates to remain 

competitive with other exchanges. 

Members have numerous alternative 

venues that they may participate on and 

direct their order flow, including other 

equities exchanges, off-exchange 

venues, and alternative trading systems. 

Additionally, the Exchange represents a 

small percentage of the overall market. 

Based on publicly available information, 

no single equities exchange has more 

than 15% of the market share.12

Therefore, no exchange possesses 

significant pricing power in the 

execution of order flow. Indeed, 

participants can readily choose to send 

their orders to other exchange and offexchange venues if they deem fee levels 

at those other venues to be more 

favorable. Moreover, the Commission 

has repeatedly expressed its preference 

for competition over regulatory 

intervention in determining prices, 

products, and services in the securities 

markets. Specifically, in Regulation 

NMS, the Commission highlighted the 

importance of market forces in 

determining prices and SRO revenues 

and, also, recognized that current 

regulation of the market system ‘‘has 

been remarkably successful in 

promoting market competition in its 

broader forms that are most important to 

investors and listed companies.’’ 13 The 

fact that this market is competitive has 

also long been recognized by the courts. 

In NetCoalition v. Securities and 

Exchange Commission, the D.C. Circuit 

stated as follows: ‘‘[n]o one disputes 

that competition for order flow is 

‘fierce.’ . . . As the SEC explained, ‘[i]n 

the U.S. national market system, buyers 

and sellers of securities, and the brokerdealers that act as their order-routing 

agents, have a wide range of choices of 

where to route orders for execution’; 

[and] ‘no exchange can afford to take its 

market share percentages for granted’ 

because ‘no exchange possesses a 

monopoly, regulatory or otherwise, in 

the execution of order flow from broker 

dealers’. . . .’’.14 Accordingly, the 

Exchange does not believe its proposed 

fee changes imposes any burden on 

competition that is not necessary or 

appropriate in furtherance of the 

purposes of the Act. 


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15 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A). 

16 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f). 17 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Comments on the 

Proposed Rule Change Received From 

Members, Participants, or Others 

The Exchange neither solicited nor 

received comments on the proposed 

rule change. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

The foregoing rule change has become 

effective pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) 

of the Act 15 and paragraph (f) of Rule 

19b–4 16 thereunder. At any time within 

60 days of the filing of the proposed rule 

change, the Commission summarily may 

temporarily suspend such rule change if 

it appears to the Commission that such 

action is necessary or appropriate in the 

public interest, for the protection of 

investors, or otherwise in furtherance of 

the purposes of the Act. If the 

Commission takes such action, the 

Commission will institute proceedings 

to determine whether the proposed rule 

change should be approved or 

disapproved. 

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change is consistent with the Act. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– 

CboeBYX–2021–016 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–CboeBYX–2021–016. This 

file number should be included on the 

subject line if email is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

internet website (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for website viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 

10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the 

filing also will be available for 

inspection and copying at the principal 

office of the Exchange. All comments 

received will be posted without change. 

Persons submitting comments are 

cautioned that we do not redact or edit 

personal identifying information from 

comment submissions. You should 

submit only information that you wish 

to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–CboeBYX–2021–016 and 

should be submitted on or before 

August 10, 2021. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.17

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15342 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 11469] 

Designation of Ousmane Illiassou 

Djibo as a Specially Designated Global 

Terrorist 

Acting under the authority of and in 

accordance with section 1(a)(ii)(B) of 

Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 

2001, as amended by Executive Order 

13268 of July 2, 2002, Executive Order 

13284 of January 23, 2003, and 

Executive Order 13886 of September 9, 

2019, I hereby determine that the person 

known as Ousmane Illiassou Djibo, also 

known as Ousmane Illassou Kounou, 

also known as Halid Illiasou Djibo, also 

known as Djibbo Illiassou, also known 

as Aboubacar Chapori, also known as 

Petit Chapori, also known as Petit 

Tchapori, also known as Petit Chappori, 

also known as Petit Chaffori, is a leader 

of ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS–GS), 

a group whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to a prior 

determination by the Secretary of State 

pursuant to Executive Order 13224. 

Consistent with the determination in 

section 10 of Executive Order 13224 that 

prior notice to persons determined to be 

subject to the Order who might have a 

constitutional presence in the United 

States would render ineffectual the 

blocking and other measures authorized 

in the Order because of the ability to 

transfer funds instantaneously, I 

determine that no prior notice needs to 

be provided to any person subject to this 

determination who might have a 

constitutional presence in the United 

States, because to do so would render 

ineffectual the measures authorized in 

the Order. 

This notice shall be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Authority: E.O. 13224. 66 FR 49079, 3 

CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 786. 

Dated: June 16, 2021. 

Antony J. Blinken, 

Secretary of State. 

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BILLING CODE 4710–AD–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 11467] 

Notice of Determinations; Culturally 

Significant Objects Being Imported for 

Exhibition—Determinations: 

‘‘Afterlives: Recovering the Lost 

Stories of Looted Art’’ Exhibition 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: I hereby 

determine that certain objects being 

imported from abroad pursuant to 

agreements with their foreign owners or 

custodians for temporary display in the 

exhibition ‘‘Afterlives: Recovering the 

Lost Stories of Looted Art’’ at The 

Jewish Museum, New York, New York, 

and at possible additional exhibitions or 

venues yet to be determined, are of 

cultural significance, and, further, that 

their temporary exhibition or display 

within the United States as 

aforementioned is in the national 

interest. I have ordered that Public 

Notice of these determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chi 

D. Tran, Program Administrator, Office 

of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6471; email: 

section2459@state.gov). The mailing 

address is U.S. Department of State, 

L/PD, 2200 C Street, NW (SA–5), Suite 

5H03, Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

foregoing determinations were made 

pursuant to the authority vested in me 

by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 

985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 

12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign 

Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 

1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 

6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of 


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